Principal Solutions Architect

Sealed Air Corporation is a knowledge-based company focused on packaging solutions that help our customers achieve their sustainability goals in the face of today’s biggest social and environmental challenges. Our portfolio of widely recognized brands, including Cryovac® brand food packaging solutions and Bubble Wrap® brand cushioning, enable a safer and less wasteful food supply chain and protect valuable goods shipped around the world. Sealed Air generated $4.5 billion in sales in 2017 and has approximately 15,000 employees who serve customers in 122 countries. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

A successful candidate will have an established background in developing large scale distributed systems with a various web and database technologies, including open source technologies and Building Microservices, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. The leader we are looking for will bring proven experience building, managing and mentoring development teams. Expectation for this role is hands-on Subject Matter Expert Leader that is close to the work and drives results across the team aligning to expectations from the business.

More Specifically:

Assess the impact of adopting emerging technologies and leveraging new techniques

Promote and enhance a culture of Agility throughout the enterprise.

Participate in the full software development life cycle

Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application, and lead on small to midsize complex projects

Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments

Work closely with developers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development

Engage with senior leadership and mid-level management to drive new opportunities and ensure our platforms meet business goals and are best leveraged

Ensure best practices and procedures, documentation capture and architecture principles are carefully followed

Meet regularly with team to gather work statuses and discuss work progress and obstacles with assigned team and or direct reports, and provide advice, guidance, encouragement and constructive feedback

Establish measurable individual and team objectives that are aligned with business and organizational goals

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Qualifications

REQUIRED SKILLS:

This role is not just to be an architect but also be a leader who works across multiple teams of engineers/scrum teams to implement best software development process and practice. You are accountable for direction, performance, and ongoing health of the Application, Information, Data, and Technology architecture and design processes, more focused around Open Source technologies. Partners with key business, product management, and product development leadership for setting strategic direction; integrates information from business strategies and portfolios to develop the overall technology vision, architecture, functionality, integration and quality for the portfolio. In your role, you will be responsible for implementing the following, and not limited to, by partnering with various development scrum teams:

.NET & Java/Scala

Angular / React

SQL & NoSQL Databases

Mobile Application Development

API Management

Git, Jira

Data Modeling

Kafka, Spark, Storm, Akka Streams

Open source technologies

8+ years of experience as an enterprise architect with vision, particularly focused around introducing & implementing Open Source technologies

5+ years’ experience in enterprise application development

5+ years of demonstrable hands-on development experience

Strong leadership skills and oriented to results

Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities demanding both rigorous attention to detail and high level comprehensive solutions

Significant experience in modern technologies required

Demonstrate a balance between operational and strategic mindset

Participated in large corporate transformations, business processes reengineering, merger and acquisitions

Excellent writing proficiency, visual design, and presentation skills and a willingness to work in team environments.

Understanding of standard business processes and data flow within a functional area.

Uses best practices and knowledge of internal and external business issues to improve products and services.

Must demonstrate the ability to think and work independently.

Requisition id: 26249

Relocation: No

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status. Sealed Air participates in the E-Verify Program (US sites only).